Author: Basil HallPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Correspondence between Basil Hall (12 letters) and Sir John Herschel (3 letters).
Author: Basil HallLetters and Papers of Sir John Herschel
Author: Michael J. CrowePublisher:
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Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
Author: Stephen CasePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009237705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first-ever comprehensive account of John Herschel's life, work and legacy, shedding new light on the history of Victorian science.
Making Stars Physical
Author: Stephen CasePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986116
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Making Stars Physical offers the first extensive look at the astronomical career of John Herschel, son of William Herschel and one of the leading scientific figures in Britain throughout much of the nineteenth century. Herschel’s astronomical career is usually relegated to a continuation of his father, William’s, sweeps for nebulae. However, as Stephen Case argues, John Herschel was pivotal in establishing the sidereal revolution his father had begun: a shift of attention from the planetary system to the study of nebulous regions in the heavens and speculations on the nature of the Milky Way and the sun’s position within it. Through John Herschel’s astronomical career—in particular his work on constellation reform, double stars, and variable stars—the study of stellar objects became part of mainstream astronomy. He leveraged his mathematical expertise and his position within the scientific community to make sidereal astronomy accessible even to casual observers, allowing amateurs to make useful observations that could contribute to theories on the nature of stars. With this book, Case shows how Herschel’s work made the stars physical and laid the foundations for modern astrophysics.
The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847
Author: William Hickling PrescottPublisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, including letters to George P. Putnam and Susan Prescott. Also included are six letters from George S. Hillard to George P. Putnam; and an engraving by J. Kirk of Prescott's house in Pepperell, Massachusetts, n.d.
Buckets from an English Sea
Author: Louis B. RosenblattPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654422
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful. A century and a half has not simply confirmed Darwin's work, it has linked evolution to the mechanisms of life on the molecular scale. It is what life does. Where Darwin had drawn his theories from forest and field, we now set them in the coiling and uncoiling of twists of DNA, linking where they might, with a host of molecular bits and pieces scurrying about. Darwin, himself, however, has been a closed story. A century and a half of study of the man and his work, including close readings of his books, his notebooks and letters, and even the books he read, has led to a working appreciation of his genius. The 'success' of this account has, however, kept us from seeing several important issues: most notably, why did he pursue evolution in the first place? Buckets from an English Sea offers a new view of what inspired Darwin and provoked his work. Stunning events early in the voyage of the Beagle challenged his deeply held conviction that people are innately good. This study of 1832 highlights the resources available to the young Darwin as he worked to secure humanity's innate goodness.
Letter from Basil Hall to John Wilson
Author: Basil HallCorrespondence Between Lord Jeffrey (l Letter) and Sir John Herschel (1 Letter).
Author: Lord Francis Jeffrey JeffreyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Flora Herscheliana
Author: Brian WarnerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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